Shasta
Shasta was given to 5 girls in 2025, #16,900 among girls’ names; 4,340 Americans have been recorded with it since 1926 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,160 Americans named Shasta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 42 years old and half are between 35 and 47.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shasta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shasta?
#16,900 among girls’ names, 2025
Shasta fell from #7,939 in 2015 to #16,900 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 8.4 to 3.1 per million.
235 babies in 1979, the peak
Shasta peaked in 1979, when 235 girls were given it, #716 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 2% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,900 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,462 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 8 | #12,032 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 8 | #12,081 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 7 | #13,270 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 5 | #17,153 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,528 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 12 | #9,067 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,384 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,649 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (78)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 15 | #7,939 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 7 | #14,334 | under 0.01 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,509 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 11 | #10,328 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 11 | #10,288 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,827 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 19 | #7,023 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,361 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 29 | #5,076 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 25 | #5,527 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 32 | #4,354 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 22 | #5,718 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 18 | #6,532 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 31 | #4,155 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 33 | #3,924 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 50 | #2,890 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 53 | #2,667 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 55 | #2,526 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 44 | #2,813 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 56 | #2,364 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 63 | #2,142 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 79 | #1,819 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 73 | #1,935 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 104 | #1,518 | 0.06 |
| 1991 | 107 | #1,479 | 0.06 |
| 1990 | 130 | #1,260 | 0.07 |
| 1989 | 152 | #1,101 | 0.08 |
| 1988 | 131 | #1,170 | 0.07 |
| 1987 | 142 | #1,080 | 0.08 |
| 1986 | 160 | #986 | 0.09 |
| 1985 | 174 | #911 | 0.10 |
| 1984 | 191 | #827 | 0.11 |
| 1983 | 194 | #803 | 0.12 |
| 1982 | 192 | #822 | 0.11 |
| 1981 | 228 | #728 | 0.14 |
| 1980 | 220 | #753 | 0.13 |
| 1979 | 235 | #716 | 0.15 |
| 1978 | 227 | #700 | 0.15 |
| 1977 | 153 | #920 | 0.10 |
| 1976 | 158 | #864 | 0.11 |
| 1975 | 83 | #1,324 | 0.06 |
| 1974 | 70 | #1,447 | 0.05 |
| 1973 | 62 | #1,523 | 0.04 |
| 1972 | 49 | #1,782 | 0.03 |
| 1971 | 63 | #1,555 | 0.04 |
| 1970 | 19 | #3,413 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,486 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,721 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,945 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 11 | #4,162 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 13 | #3,703 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,394 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 12 | #3,988 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 10 | #4,489 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,486 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 14 | #3,485 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 12 | #3,788 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,835 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 10 | #4,163 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,418 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 10 | #4,006 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 15 | #2,997 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 9 | #4,185 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,470 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,954 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,983 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 8 | #4,156 | under 0.01 |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,515 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shasta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shasta has been given almost only to girls: 20 boys in 78 years of records.
Girls and boys named Shasta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shasta, and how old are they?
4,160 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 4,340 Americans ever recorded as Shasta. The median Shasta alive today is 42 years old; half are between 35 and 47.
The 2020 Census counted 3,614 people named Shasta (3,546 women and girls, 68 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,157 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 125 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,320 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,120 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 461 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 134 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Shasta born?
The states with the most babies named Shasta are California, Texas and Tennessee, with 43% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Tennessee is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 536 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Texas | 259 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Tennessee | 189 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Ohio | 135 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Oregon | 135 | not ranked | 2.6× |
| North Carolina | 114 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Alabama | 97 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Louisiana | 66 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Washington | 66 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Kentucky | 60 | not ranked | 0.8× |
Where Shasta is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Shasta is most over-represented in Oregon: since 1926 it was given 2.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Shasta with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Shasta
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Shasta and names like it
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- The top names of 1979The year the most babies were named Shasta.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shasta alive today were born 1981-1996.
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